recommendationnoun
uk/ˌrek.ə.menˈdeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌrek.ə.menˈdeɪ.ʃən/B2 [ C or U ] a suggestion that something is good or suitable for a particular purpose or job:
I bought this computer on John's recommendation (= because John told me that it was good).
I got the job on Sam's recommendation (= because she told her employers that I was suitable for the job).
B2 [ C ] advice telling someone what the best thing to do is:
[ + that ] The report makes the recommendation that no more prisons should be built.
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- They were accused of trying to emasculate the report's recommendations.
- The National Executive is expected to endorse these recommendations.
- I'd like to see the research that these recommendations are founded on.
- This committee can make recommendations but it has no real teeth.
- I don't know what to choose. What's your recommendation?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Backing, supporting & defending
- -backed
- argumentation
- bale out
- bear
- behind every great/successful man there stands a woman idiom
- buttress
- carry
- defensible
- endorse
- espouse
- fight your corner idiom
- right behind sb idiom
- speak
- stake
- stand by sb
- stand by sth
- stand shoulder to shoulder with sb idiom
- strike
- sympathize
- sympathy
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Giving advice